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June 2004
Florence Isaacs' latest book Change Your Mind, Change Your Body: Feeling Good About Your Body And Self After 40 (Atria Books) with Ann Kearney-Cooke, Ph.D., hits the shelves this month. Isaacs, author of Toxic Friends/True Friends (Kensington), has also been quoted as an expert on friendship in the last few months in Cosmopolitan, Shape, First for Women and other publications
Kathy Sena was the guest speaker for a recent workshop, "How to Get Published in Magazines," at the Pasadena (Calif.) Public Library. The workshop, sponsored by Woman's Day and the American Library Association, drew nearly 100 participants from all over Southern California
Beverly Gray will be interviewed on A&E's Father's Day special, airing Sunday, June 20 at 8 p.m. The program focuses on fathers and sons, Hollywood-style. Gray is the author of Ron Howard: From Mayberry to the Moon ... and Beyond and Roger Corman: Blood-Sucking Vampires, Flesh-Eating Cockroaches, and Driller Killers
Penelope Grenoble O'Malley (joined by her grandson, Zane Grenoble) as she signs copies of her new book, Malibu Diary: Notes from an Urban Refugee (University of Nevada Press) at Dutton's Brentwood Books in Los Angeles, CA. John Murray, editor of the American Nature Writing anthology series calls O'Malley "every bit the literary equal of such contemporary luminaries as Barbara Kingsolver"
Patricia and Robert Foulke were recognized at the North American Snowsports Journalist Association conference in Telluride, CO, in March as runners-up in the Harold Hirsch Award for Newspaper Features for three feature articles on skiing in the Canadian Rockies
Sophia V. Schweitzer's Kohala Aina, A History of North Kohala (Mutual Publishing, Honolulu, 2003) won Best-Of-Show in Hawaii's Keep-It-Hawaii Awards that cover 15 categories. The book was also honored with a Kahili in Literary Arts. The Keep-It-Hawaii awards recognize contributions that seek to preserve and perpetuate Hawaiian culture
Russell Wild, who has been writing about personal finances and economics for the past several years, is now licensed as a fee-only financial planner and investment advisor, and has been accepted as a member of the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA). "NAPFA is to financial planning what ASJA is to freelance writing," says Wild. His career plan is to divide his time equally between writing and financial planning
Ruth Gruber's Inside of Time: My Jouney from Alaska to Israel (Carroll & Graf, 2002), which was nominated by her publisher for a Pulitzer, has just been reissued as a paperback by Carroll & Graf
Wilbur Cross is working on two new book contracts. His 50th book, Disaster at the Pole (Lyons Press, 2001), about the 1928 crash of an Italian airship after a North Pole flight and the search for the survivors, continues to sell well. There is talk of it becoming a documentary
Cheryl Platzman Weinstock's latest article on women and heart disease was the subject of a talk she moderated on May 6 at the Westport, CT, Barnes & Noble
Marisa D'Vari has sold two proposals—Building Buzz: How to Position Yourself as the Expert of Choice, will be released by Career Press in 2005. Creating Characters: Let Them Whisper Their Secrets, will be released by MWP, also in 2005. D'Vari is also active on the lecture circuit
M.L. "Mike" Stein is writing a column called "Cityside" for the Irvine section of the Sunday Orange County Register in Southern California
For Chelsea House's "Women in Medicine" series, Susan Tyler Hitchcock has written two biographies: one of Rita Levi-Montalcini, the Italian neuroscientist, and one of Karen Horney, the feminist neo-Freudian.
